Thursday, July 30, 2009

A Type 1 Diabetes Group Exhibition BenefitSaturday, August 15th, 2009 from 7-9pmI'll have an ink drawing available for sale at the opening of the "PRE-EXISTING CONDITION" group exhibition to increase awareness about Type 1 Diabetes and to raise money to fund research for a cure. The majority of the proceeds will be gifted to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. All of us artists who are participating share a connection to diabetes (my dad has it) or they know a friend or relative who has the disease.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

My Friend Deph has a Toy release at this upcoming Comic Con in San Diego.Here is the info on that:July 24thHoly Roller FatCap 6-InchSigning with DEPH

DEPH’s FatCap wears a gas mask to protect his lungs and conceal his skull face while he destroys walls with his crate of spray paint and extension roller. Available in two colorways, green and the SDCC exclusive purple, this limited edition FatCap stands 6-inches tall, rattles when you shake him just like the real thing, and features DEPH’s tag on the back. Retails for $75 each and includes a DEPH poster.

Signings: Shake things up with DEPH at SDCC! He’ll be in Booth #4529 on Friday, July 24th from 11am-1pm with a limited number of Holy Roller FatCaps available for signing.

Artist: DEPH is a LA-based graffiti artist, illustrator and painter. He has created artwork for toys, cars, movies, video games, skateboards, print ads, and more. His work has been displayed in many galleries across the US. When he is not painting, he concentrates on his clothing company To Die For.

Availability & Production Run: The run of 1200 of the green FatCaps will be available at SDCC, Kidrobot stores at 11am local time on July 23, kidrobot.com at 11am EST on July 23, and at select retailers (check for times and availability). The run of 200 purple FatCaps is an SDCC exclusive and only available at Kidrobot booth #4529.

Also I have a piece in the "Bashers" art show along with some incredibly talented folks. Check it out and see Dulok Shaman perform live for his record release party happening along side.

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Well, the cats out of the bag. Recently my friend Amy Sol and I created a collaborative piece based on the fanciful movie "The Neverending Story" for this years "Crazy 4 Cult" show at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles. In doing our research for the piece, it was necessary to actually travel into the book and have our own adventures. After teaming up with Atreyu to save the world from "The Nothing", we encountered what we were hoping was the G'Mork, but in fact turned out to be this guy:... that's right. Limahl, the creator of the song with the same great name of our favorite childhood movie and the wearer of the most beautiful head of hair known to man, the spiky mullet. After battling him tooth and nail for days and days (Limahl fights dirty), I finally made it back to my studio and was able to finish my half of the painting, forever scarred, not so much physically, but more emotionally, I mean look at the amount of feeling he puts into each verse:

Well, you are all welcome to come out and join us for this years "Crazy 4 Cult" (heralding the cult movie classics)on July 16 at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles. There are too many amazing artists and pieces in this show to list so I hope you are ready for stimulus overload.

Thursday, July 2, 2009

So my good friends at TO DIE FOR, the greatest clothing label around, took some photos for me of the some of the Hurley ads and mainstage backdrop at the Vans Warp tour recently. If you look closely, you can see the crayon clawed ugly mug of a certain wannabe classical pianist whose protusions in the hands make it impossible to play.... and looking around you might see a talented Bob Dob and a Jason Maloney too.Thanks Hurley and To Die For...now for those of you who like Peanut butter and Jelly sandwiches, click the sandwichand for those of you who like weird paintings and drawings that slap you unconscious and drag you into another world where you slowly wake up and say, "where the hell am I...is that a unicorn snuggling a cloud on a rainbow colored carebear ?", click the little black bunny head...seeya,greg